Holiday cards – do you send them?
Every year for as long as I can remember, I’ve designed and/or handmade our Christmas cards. One of these years I’ll put them all together in that little album I bought for that purpose a decade ago or so. Maybe.
Here is this year’s, fresh off the Fed Ex truck from the printer:
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Last year I hand printed and hand tinted a couple hundred of these from a design I carved:
©Robyn Hood Black. All rights reserved.
Do you send out cards this time of year? Purchased or handmade? Or maybe you gather up the family for a photo card, so folks can keep up with how the children are growing? Do you include a yearly letter?
I typically tuck in a photo of the four of us and don’t do a letter.
Do tell – what holiday card traditions are on your kitchen table? (Or have you already gotten them out? How organized!)
Wishing you and yours a lovely, inspiring December!
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I don’t think I’ll make it with the cards this year, Robyn. There is just too much to do. But I wanted to tell you how beautiful your cards are. I’ll check out your site for more gifts, however! Best to you for this season!
Linda – I think anybody who’s moving should be off the hook! Thanks so much for dropping by. Wishing you magic and mistletoe tucked into all you have going on this year.
Robyn, how beautiful! So…cards. I get a ton of cards in the mail from organizations–like Habitat or Red Cross or Alzheimer’s Association–that I’ve sent money to at sometime or other. I mean, it may have been ten years ago…Anyway, I don’t always send in a contribution when the cards come, but I feel like I have to send the cards so I don’t waste them. And maybe someone will look at the back, where the organization’s name is, and that’s something, right?
I used to buy cards. But now I’m guilted into sending whatever cards are in my holiday basket. *sigh*
Hi, Cathy! I know what you mean about the cards from charitable organizations – I flinch if I toss them into the recycling, and sometimes I re-use the envelopes! Some are really cute.
But if I didn’t send something original after all these years, a few of our recipients would mutiny…. They have me well-trained. ;0)
Your cards are beautiful. I really like the one you created for this year. I purchased Christmas cards earlier this year, but I usually include one of my poems in many of them. I’m trying to finish revising the poem. I hope to have it ready soon.
Thank you, Patricia – that’s a lovely idea to include one of your poems in your cards. Best wishes as you finish revising! And I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday.
You are inspirational!
Oh, Kathleen – what a kind thing to say. YOU inspire me!